This intensive three-day course develops the skills needed to work with requirements stakeholders to ensure that requirements satisfy various perspectives and that conflicts are negotiated to a position of consensus.

Delegates will learn how to work with stakeholders and other requirements actors to ensure the requirements are complete, unambiguous, realistic and testable.

Target Audience

This course is for those wishing to acquire the skill set required for establishing system requirements and those wishing to attain the BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering.

There are no specific pre-requisites for this course.

Please note the exam fee is not included in the course fee. Delegates wishing to undertake the exam should also book on course code REEX-2.

Those delegates taking the BCS certificate will need to spend 60-90 minutes each evening whilst on the course doing revision and example examination questions.

If you are taking and booking the BCS exam on code REEX-2 you must bring photographic identification with you (passport, driving license or student card), as it is a BCS requirement to produce it for the invigilator prior to the exam. Failure to produce a valid form of photographic identification will result in a candidate not being able to sit the exam. For any questions about what form of identification is acceptable please contact your Account Manager or the QA Examination Administration team on 44 (0)1793 696273.

BCS allow additional time for candidates who have a disability or whose native language differs to that of the examination paper. Full details are provided in the BCS Reasonable Adjustments Policy which is available to view on the BCS website. If you believe you qualify for this then please notify the Exam Administration team on the details below as early as possible. At least two weeks' notice will be required for processing this request. Delegates failing to advise QA and provide evidence when requested, may not be allowed the additional support offered via the BCS policy. QA Exam Administration can be contacted by email exam.admin@qa.com or by phone 44(0) 1793 696162.

Following your exam you will be sent an email from BCS asking you to register for your exam. Once you have registered and your exam results become available then you will be able to log back into your account and view your results.

At the end of this course you will be able to:

Describe the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders in the requirements engineering process

Demonstrate the application of a range requirements elicitation techniques

Explain the use of requirements elicitation techniques and the relevance of the techniques to given situations

Document and prioritise user requirements for an information system

Identify problems with requirements and explain how requirements documentation may be improved

Create a process/function model of requirements for an information system

Interpret a model of the data requirements for an information system

Explain the importance of linking project objectives and requirements to the Business Case

Describe the principles of Requirements Management and explain the importance of managing requirements

Describe the use of CASE tools to support Requirements Engineering

Explain the principles of Requirements Validation and define an approach to validating requirements

The Requirements Engineering Process

Lifecycle for business change; Business plans and objectives; Problems with requirements; The stakeholders involved in RE; RE process overview